Category: Dan Roodt

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Dan Roodt was born in Springs, east of Johannesburg. He studied Afrikaans, French and Comparative Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as Philosopy at the University of Paris VIII under the famous French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard. He published a short novel and book of poetry at the age of 23. Since then he has written a total of 8 books, as well as numerous articles in the press and on the internet. In 2000 he founded PRAAG, an NGO in South Africa, as well as a publishing company by the same name. He is currently president of Pretoria PEN, affiliated to the international writers’ organisation. Dan Roodt has also been active in the movement for racial and linguistic equality in South Africa and regularly protests against anti-white violence in South Africa. According to prof. Jaap Steyn and Hennie van Coller of the Free State University in Bloemfontein, he has been one of the three most influential Afrikaans language activists of the twentieth century.

South Africa, like Cuba, is the last outpost of communism. Elsewhere in the world, experiments in collective farming and nationalisation have been abandoned as the grim mistakes of nineteenth-century radicalism, issuing forth from the bearded Karl Marx, … Read the rest

South Africa is the most interesting country in the world to live in. For almost eight years I lived in Paris and I could stroll to the Louvre, the Picasso Museum, buy cheap tickets at the Bastille … Read the rest

The multicultural dream that the US and Britain foresaw in South Africa is simply not going to happen. In fact, it is not even being realised in their own countries, backed up by huge globalised economies.